Half-Life 2 Mod Turns It Into a Resident Evil-Style Horror Game

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A new trailer shows off an impressive total conversion for Valve’s first-person classic Half-Life 2 that transforms the acclaimed shooter into a Resident Evil-style survival horror game complete with inventory management and static cameras. Valve’s acclaimed game has proven to be a popular title with modders over the years, with one creator recently even designing a mod that turns Half-Life 2 into a Doom 2016-style shooter.

Originally released for PC in 2004, Half-Life 2 was the long-awaited follow-up to Valve’s groundbreaking 1998 shooter Half-Life. Built using Valve’s powerful new Source engine, which allowed for drastically larger levels than the original title and featured some of the most realistic facial animation available in games at the time, Half-Life 2 was a hit with gamers and critics and helped turn Valve’s fledgling online storefront, Steam, into the juggernaut it is today. The game was followed by two episodic sequels that continued the story of Half-Life 2, with a planned Half-Life 2: Episode 3 failing to make it out of development and leaving players without a resolution to the story.

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Abandoning the dystopian trapping of City 17 and protagonist Gordon Freeman, an intriguing new mod for Half-Life 2 turns the shooter into a 90s-style survival horror game. The release trailer for the total conversion mod, titled Lost and Damned, shows off numerous gameplay features that will be instantly familiar to fans of classic survival horror games. From static cameras that force players to explore the environment from a third-person perspective to an inventory management screen that would look right at home in the first Resident Evil game, the impressive mod